How important is company prestige for M7 adcom? I have a lot of achievements but the company’s name is not well-known.
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GMAT: 740
GPA: 80% double major pharmacology/biology in Canada
Great ECs and a great story: board of non profit and advisor for another one and a few other things
Post MBA goal: consulting

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Not that important compared to your achievements and stats

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Well, if a subset of companies attracts the best and brightest, won’t that bias admissions committees to disproportionately select applicants from those companies because they have already been pre-screened with an extremely high bar? Like it or not, admissions is an inexact and highly biased process, which is why they use heuristics like going to a top company in a field since it’s hard to differentiate candidates. I think it’s nonsensical to believe that someone at Goldman Sachs has an equal chance to someone at a no name bank even if their stats are similar. It’s one thing to say that they might be equally bright. That could be true. But to say that admissions views them the same? Not true.

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